Climate justice: a new way of looking at environmental issues

Authors

  • Maria Cecilia Trannin Universidade Estácio de Sá, Rio de Janeiro, RJ Faculdade de Administração e Finanças – Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro – UERJ. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5850-3864

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/2179460X38599

Keywords:

Climate justice, Climate change, Adaptation to climate change

Abstract

Climate change is a concerning topic, as it is impossible to deny its damaging effects on the planet. Different policy responses have been offered regarding climate change adaptation, and these have brought forward issues related to climate justice. As this topic is still not very well known in Brazil, this paper aims to raise awareness on climate justice concepts and related issues.  This is a literature review which analyses climate justice theories and their relation with the concept of climate change adaptation in order to offer a new point-of-view on the topic.  This paper has come to the conclusion that the concept of climate change has been created due to the increased importance of climate justice. Its origins lie in climate change activism, which seeks to help the most affected communities.  That was when the fight for sharing the burden of climate change emerged, giving rise to the concepts of mitigation and climate adaptation. Thus, the most affected populations should receive assistance in the form of climate change impact adaptation, financed by the countries which are responsible for most greenhouse effect gas emissions, in name of climate justice.

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Author Biography

Maria Cecilia Trannin, Universidade Estácio de Sá, Rio de Janeiro, RJ Faculdade de Administração e Finanças – Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro – UERJ.

PhD em Ecologia Social – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Professora de Geografia - Faculdade de Geografia - Universidade Estácio de Sá – Rio de Janeiro – RJ. Professora Adjunta do Centro de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas – Faculdade de Administração e Finanças – Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro – UERJ.

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Trannin, M. C. (2022). Climate justice: a new way of looking at environmental issues. Ciência E Natura, 42, e20. https://doi.org/10.5902/2179460X38599 (Original work published October 29, 2019)

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